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'Avatar' Director James Cameron Doesn't Want 'Titanic' To 'Topple Off Its Perch'
7 December 2009 11:30 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
From MTV.Com: In 1997, James Cameron achieved an unprecedented triple crown, launching "Titanic" to Best Picture and Best Director Oscars and the title for all-time box-office champ, grossing an astounding $1.8 billion worldwide. In 1999, the Albert Brooks comedy "The Muse" featured a cameo from the filmmaker, depicting him as someone unsure of what to do next. Now, 12 years later, he is finally ready to unveil his follow-up.
On Thursday afternoon (December 3), the legendary director sat down with MTV for a live-stream Q&A, taking questions from fans and unveiling new footage from his December 18 sci-fi flick "Avatar." One of the first things he said was that he held no ill will toward all those who have fed the pressure he's spent the past 12 years preparing to overcome.
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- Adam Rosenberg
'Avatar' Director James Cameron Says Fan Pressure Inspires Him
5 December 2009 9:14 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'It makes you a better filmmaker when you know you've got a lot of fans to please and that their expectations are high,' he says during MTV's live-stream chat.
By Larry Carroll, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Photo: MTV News
In 1997, James Cameron achieved an unprecedented triple crown, launching "Titanic" to Best Picture and Best Director Oscars and the title for all-time box-office champ, grossing an astounding $1.8 billion worldwide. In 1999, the Albert Brooks comedy "The Muse" featured a cameo from the filmmaker, depicting him as someone unsure of what to do next. Now, 12 years later, he is finally ready to unveil his follow-up.
On Thursday afternoon (December 3), the legendary director sat down with MTV for a live-stream Q&A, taking questions from fans and unveiling new footage from his December 18 sci-fi flick "Avatar." One of the first things he said was that he held no ill will »
The Naughts: The Buddy Pair of the '00s
1 December 2009 1:04 PM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Nobody in the film business has had as good a decade as the folks at Pixar Animation Studios. They released seven films in ten years, all of them box office hits, all of them critical successes. Four of them won Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature (and the past summer's "Up" stands a good chance to make it five).
Because of the studio's incredible run of creativity, Pixar filmmakers are often asked to explain the secret of the company's success. In an interview with Movie City News' David Poland, "Finding Nemo" and "Wall-e" director Andrew Stanton cited a meeting the company's brain trust held shortly after the release of "Toy Story" to assess exactly what went right that time so that they could be sure to repeat that formula in the future. As Stanton explained it, "We felt that it was a weird, perfect symbiotic combination of there [being] one visionary »
- Matt Singer
Meryl Streep Says She’s Past Her “sell by date”
1 December 2009 5:20 AM, PST | Gossipvita | See recent Gossipvita news »
The Oscar-winning actress can’t believe she’s still be offered roles in high-profile movies now she’s reached 60 as she knows Hollywood discriminates against older women.
She said: “It’s incredible - I’m 60, and I’m playing the romantic lead in romantic comedies. Bette Davis is rolling over in her grave. “I’ve been given great, weird, interesting parts well past my ‘sell by date’. I remember saying to my husband Don when I was 38, ‘Well, it’s over.’ And then we kicked the can down the road a little further.” Meryl – who won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in ‘Sophie’s Choice’ and the Best Supporting Actress for ‘Kramer Vs Kramer’ – also says she’s given up worrying what people think of her. She told Vanity Fair magazine: “I can’t remember the last time I really worried about being appealing. I think it was a really long time ago. »
- Alice
The Name Game: Biblical Boys
27 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST | People - CelebrityBabies | See recent People - CelebrityBabies news »
For baby name purists the search for the perfect moniker often begins and ends with the Bible. Featuring countless names that have endured for thousands of years, it is the epitome of traditional — offering time-honored appeal to both celebrities and non-celebrities alike.
Nameberry.com co-founder Linda Rosenkrantz notes that biblical names claim the top five spots on the Most Popular list for boys. What’s more, she points out, “there’s been an Old Testament name at #1 for the past 55 years, when New Testament classics like John and James started to lose their lead.”
Following the lead of the general population, »
- Missy
Gems of the 1980's: Susan Seidelman Remembers Desperately Seeking Susan
22 November 2009 8:01 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
(Filmmaker Susan Seidelman, above.)
by Jon Zelazny
In the early 80’s NYC cultural lull between Patti Smith’s retirement and Jay McInerney’s breakout, Nyu film school graduate Susan Seidelman did the scrappy shoestring indie film thing, resulting in her acclaimed feature debut Smithereens (1982).
Best known for her hit sophomore effort, Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Seidelman continues to direct movies and TV shows featuring female protagonists… including the pilot for “Sex and the City” and her Oscar nominated short film The Dutch Master (1994), about a shy dental technician who ventures “into” a museum painting for flights of erotic fantasy.
Susan Seidelman: My husband Jonathan Brett—who co-wrote and produced The Dutch Master—and I had committed to living in Paris for a year because I was set to direct a feature for Polygram, a company that unfortunately went bankrupt. So we were kind of in a funk over there, and »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Cinematical Seven: '80s Military Recruitment Movies
3 November 2009 7:02 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
We live in a time when war movies based on toys (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) are better received by the public than those that have a basis in truth (The Hurt Locker). G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, out on DVD and Blu-ray today, dances around its origins as military action figures by positioning its heroes as an elite unit, more like well-armed spies than anything resembling common soldiers. The aim appears to be similar, though: provide heroic figures that inspire others to follow in their footsteps.
Back in the 80s, movies that could be mistaken for recruitment propaganda became surprisingly common. The film industry, which had firmly resisted anything related directly to the Vietnam War while it was being waged, became schizophrenic in the 80s, releasing anti-war and pro-war flicks side by side into theaters. Here are seven key films, listed chronologically, »
- Peter Martin
Super Dave Osborne Returns To Spike TV
16 October 2009 1:04 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Gas up your motorcycle, strap on your helmet and ready the ambulance because the infamous Super Dave Osborne will be returning to television in a big way with four half-hour specials titled Super Dave’s Spike-Tacular to air on Spike TV starting in November.
Super Dave Osborne, known as the world’s klutziest daredevil with each of his death defying stunts consistently going wrong - causing Super Dave to sustain horrific injuries, is a character created and played by the Emmy award winning Smothers Brothers writer (and brother of Albert Brooks), Bob Einstein.
“I was a little hesitant about coming back and risking my life each week, but the only other offer I had was ‘Super & Kate Plus 8.”
Some of the stunts we’ll see Super Dave tackle in this series include.
Attempting to break the Nascar speed record on a track loaded with explosives. Breaking the Guinness Book of »
- Anthony Ocasio
Trinity Of Terrors Guest Profile: Robert Kurtzman
7 October 2009 12:33 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Writer, Director, and Special FX legend Robert Kurtzman will be attending the inaugural Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors, to be held October 30 through November 1 at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas! Kurtzman will be onhand to discuss his work on the Jennifer Lynch-directed Hisss, his latest directorial effort Deadly Impact (formerly To Live And Die) starring Sean Patrick Flanery and Joe Pantoliano, and the latest FX projects from his Precinct 13 Creature Corps.
Tickets for our massive Halloween Weekend are now available online through http://www.trinityofterrors.com and through Vegas.com. You may also order tickets from Vegas.com by phone - 1-888-las-vegas (527-8342) 24 hours a day.
For more than two decades Robert Kurtzman has been an icon in the world of special make-up,creature effects, and genre filmmaking.
His award winning, photorealistic effects work can be seen inhundreds of movies including Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters, franchises and television series. »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Staff)
DVD: Review:Stella: Live In Boston
29 September 2009 10:01 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Like postmodern forefathers Andy Kaufman, Albert Brooks, and Steve Martin, cult comedy trio Stella performs a nightclub act that doubles as a sly deconstruction/meta-commentary on the nightclub act. A three-headed hydra of pseudo-smarminess, Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and David Wain delight in bad puns, labored wordplay, hokey pop-culture references, banal sentiment, and the extravagant phoniness of show-business hacks. In their sharply tailored suits, they look the part of polished performers, but they behave like a cross between overgrown children and third-rate vaudevillians. Then again, what are most hack performers, if not big kids? On the newly released Stella »
[TV] Simpsons: The Twelfth Season
22 August 2009 6:14 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
The Simpsons was funny once. The earliest two seasons were more of a continuation of the characters as established on the Tracey Ullman show and so may not have been funny per se, but they were at least socially relevant then and remain so today. With season three The Simpsons started to score the kind of laughs that would make it the beloved comedy series that hooked fans across the globe. The seasons got funnier and funnier and by the ninth it had hit a stride that put all its peers to shame. Season 12 represents the tail end of the show’s genuinely funny years and may be the last season of The Simpsons worth buying on DVD – or at least half of it.
After a dozen seasons most shows have had more than a few change-ups in their cast, but The Simpsons has no such detriment. The voice actors »
- Lex Walker
The Men Who Read The News
23 July 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Robert here, catching up with the news that the great Walter Cronkite passed away. Sad news indeed, but it got me thinking about how that fabled job of T.V. newsman has been portrayed in cinema through the years.
David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow in Good Night and Good LuckAward Season of 2005 was all about Brokeback Mountain vs. Crash and the Best Actor races pitted Heath Ledger against Philip Seymour Hoffman. Lost in the fray was epically dependable character actor David Strathairn. In fact, one might say despite being the star of the film he was overshadowed by his director. When does that happen? Well, when the director is George Clooney I suppose.
Will Ferrell as Ron Burgandy in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron BurgundyGo ahead and say that Ferrell's schtick has gotten old. I won't argue. But Anchorman saw him at the height of his powers. Even »
- Robert
War of the Words
22 July 2009 2:26 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
For weeks now, I've heard fellow critics recommending Armando Iannucci's "In the Loop," a film about a verbal blunder that leads to an international crisis, as a pinnacle of screwball satire, a treasure trove of absurd situations and quotable lines, a "Dr. Strangelove" for the new millennium. I understand the fuss: the state of movie comedy is so generally dismal that when one demonstrates any wit at all, we tend to react like desert travelers who've stumbled upon an oasis. But while I agree that "In the Loop" is a breezy, amusing, committed movie -- writer-director Iannucci was responsible for the BBC's "This is Alan Partridge," the brilliant Steve Coogan vehicle that takes the early Albert Brooks school of miserable jerk comedy as far as it can go -- I wasn't bowled over. It's good, very good, but visually and rhythmically unremarkable and ultimately pretty thin. And there's a »
- Matt Zoller Seitz
Writer steps into Leonardo's Twilight Zone
20 July 2009 10:43 AM, PDT | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »
Screenwriter Rand Ravich has been hired to write a new Twilight Zone movie for Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way production company.
Ravich is the creator behind the NBC drama series Life as well as the screenwriter of The Astronaut's Wife starring Charlize Theon and Johnny Depp and 1995's Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh. The hiring of Rand is the first major new development since Appian Way started to work on a new Twilight Zone movie one year ago. It's not yet known what Ravich has in mind for the new Zone's story, if it will be a collection of multiple stories or a single storyline that spans the film.
DiCaprio's Twilight Zone is the second time that a feature film has been made from Rod Serling's classic television series from the 1950s-60s. The first Twilight Zone movie came out in 1983 and featured four segments directed by John Landis »
- Patrick Sauriol
Emmy nominations: The good, the bad and the ugly (Part 2)
16 July 2009 2:05 PM, PDT | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
First, our Emmy amigo Robert "Rob L" Licuria gave his rundown on Emmy nominations in the format of the good, the bad and the ugly. Now here's Chris "Boomer" Beachum piping in. Here is a list of nominees. The Good Probably the best overall set of nominations from the Emmys this decade (lots of deserving first-timers, snubs when appropriate for the most part, returning favorites when deserved). Jim Parsons, Jemaine Clement, Simon Baker, Sarah Silverman, Elisabeth Moss as welcome additions in the lead categories! Tracy Morgan, Jack McBrayer, Aaron Paul, Kristen Wiig, Jane Krakowski, Rose Byrne, Cherry Jones all as first-time nominees in supporting! Harry Shearer finally having a real shot at winning his first Emmy for "The Simpsons." "Saturday Night Live" back in the running with a standout season. All the love for "Grey Gardens" on HBO. "Yeah!" for finally moving away from James Spader, America Ferrera, Rachel Griffiths & Kathryn Joosten. »
- tomoneil
Finding Nemo – Movie Review – DVD Details Included
30 May 2009 6:33 AM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »
Pixar certainly knows a lot about animation, and that’s what people think of first when you mention the company, but what everyone ought to think of first is that they know a lot about movies. As amazing as their computer-created worlds are, their moviemaking skills far outshine them. ‘Finding Nemo’ is an incredibly impressive view of things that are among the most difficult to animate, not the least of which being the water itself, but it is also one of the best stories about fathers, sons, and humans in general that you’ll run across. The movie starts with Marlin (Albert Brooks), a clownfish, showing his wife the new home he’s found for them. We only get a brief glimpse of hundreds of their eggs, and the playful, colorful world of the reef on which they live, when a barracuda appears. Cut to Marlin finding the one remaining egg. »
- Marc Eastman
Jessica Biel's Beauty Problem (Oh, Really?)
19 May 2009 5:32 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Big news: another beautiful actress laments that her good looks limit her acting choices. Jessica Biel says that being so attractive "really is a problem ... I just want an opportunity," she told Allure for their June issue, on sale next week. "If you don't like the audition, then don't hire me! But if you don't want to even see me - that's hurtful."
The quick conclusion to draw is that Biel is seriously delusional, that she's another spoiled, overpaid pretty girl. "Wah wah wah! Poor, poor, pitiful me!" However, none of the interview is online, only quotes that are scattered among various online outlets, so it's impossible to evaluate the context of her quote. Biel may, in fact, be delusional about her own abilities; on the other hand, what's wrong with yearning for the opportunity to demonstrate a wider range of her skills, and not to be judged by her looks alone? »
- Peter Martin
Review: I Love You, Man
20 March 2009 11:02 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
(We're reposting this review from SXSW to coincide with the film's theatrical release this weekend)
By: Eugene Novikov
Up until now, Paul Rudd has been content to sit in the back seat. Apart from a funny but nondescript star turn in Role Models, Rudd has mostly bided his time on the fringes of the various Team Apatow productions, churning out one memorable supporting performance after another, plus the occasional bit part in the likes of Night at the Museum. That he's developed a small but enthusiastic fanbase anyway speaks to his star potential.
I Love You, Man is a sweet, amusing, and perfectly acceptable comedy all around, but it's exciting because it marks the point where Rudd finally begins to stake out his territory as a comedian and a leading man. As Peter Klaven, the happy and level-headed real estate agent who discovers, upon proposing to his girlfriend of eight months, »
- Cinematical staff
SXSW 2009: "How Did We Get Away With That?"
19 March 2009 8:03 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
"This movie's a comedy, I guess," director Jody Hill said in his introduction to "Observe and Report," the Seth Rogen-starring entry into the burgeoning mall cop genre. If Hill wasn't quite certain about what he had on his hands before the film played to a packed Paramount Theater, he could rest easy after the "weird-ass" character study pretty much killed it (both figuratively and all too literally at times, as Alison Willmore noted in her review on Indie Eye). By Tuesday morning, Hill and cast members Rogen, Faris, Michael Pena and Danny McBride were at the Austin Convention Center for a panel moderated by film critic Elvis Mitchell, who opened up the discussion by asking Hill, "what made you think the world needed a comedic version of 'Taxi Driver'?" (Later on in the panel, Rogen belatedly responded by asking in return, 'What if Albert Brooks was the »
- Stephen Saito
SXSW Review: I Love You, Man
14 March 2009 6:03 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Up until now, Paul Rudd has been content to sit in the back seat. Apart from a funny but nondescript star turn in Role Models, Rudd has mostly bided his time on the fringes of the various Team Apatow productions, churning out one memorable supporting performance after another, plus the occasional bit part in the likes of Night at the Museum. That he's developed a small but enthusiastic fanbase anyway speaks to his star potential.
I Love You, Man is a sweet, amusing, and perfectly acceptable comedy all around, but it's exciting because it marks the point where Rudd finally begins to stake out his territory as a comedian and a leading man. As Peter Klaven, the happy and level-headed real estate agent who discovers, upon proposing to his girlfriend of eight months, that his total lack of guy friends will result in an all-female wedding party if he doesn't act fast, »
- Eugene Novikov
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